Re: __attribute__((unused))

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Thu Oct 14 2004 - 18:39:05 EST


On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Russell King wrote:

> It's the "later compilers" which I'm worried about here - I think they
> defined "unused" to mean "this really really isn't used and you can
> discard it". Hence my concern with the above.

Your concern is valid. Much enough it's been already fixed in 2.4.27, so
I suppose 2.6 deserves the fix, too.

Maciej
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